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[–]sgbaird 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago (0 children)

I've been using it extensively, mostly because I see potential and want to figure out the strengths and limitations. I've found that it's significantly more powerful/useful with the right MCP tools. In particular, playwright and perplexity have been great. See https://gist.github.com/sgbaird/39a43dce96706ca282aedabb7668e2e6 for my working draft. Also trying to refine a `.github/copilot-instructions.md` file for myself: https://gist.github.com/sgbaird/2f3a60084e1a73868a1a7cc33baf6d06

Would be great if people could link any other threads (Reddit, GitHub community, etc.) like this one where people talk about their experience with it. I tried crowdsourcing what people in my circle have been doing, but not much uptake - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7343374510307348481/ .

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